Plant protector



Dec. 27,192?.VV 1,654,446

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UNITE@ STATES KPA'I'ENT QEFICE.

CHARLES M, ARMSTRONG, 0E EAs'r LANSING, MICHIGAN.Y

rLAN'r PROTECTOR.

Appiication mea June 13, 1925. serial No.l 36,955.

invention is intended to furnish a cheap method or protecting growing plants from freezing by covering them with a paper bagwhich is provided with a suitable 5 means for retaining it in position.

ln the drawings toi-ming a part of this* application and in` characters designate which like reference corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a bottom planr view ot the coinplete device in its open position;

Figure 2 is a side elevation ltnereoi';

sectional views taken respectively upon lines.

Figures 3 and 4 are transverse vertical 3 3 and are of Figure l;

Figure 5 illustrates which the device is for indicated by dotted li the sheet oi' paper oi med, the folding being' nes 5 Figure 6 is a sectional view illustrating the manner ot making the Figure 7 illustrates :t'or holding the devic oldings; and the form of the wire e in position.

My device is composed of a'sheet of paper l which is folded in the manner shown in Figure 6 and is then stitchedor otherwise fastened .together at 2 in Figure e. 5 shows the direction across the bottom as shown The dotted line in Figure in which the stitching is done. For retaining the device in position, a wire 3 of vany desired length is bent preferably into the 'oim of a T as shown in Figure 7.

lNhen it is desired to use my device the wire 3 is inserted with its head Lt close in to the row ot stitching The toldings 5 and 6 and parallel with it. are then straightened out indicated by the straight dotted lines 7 and 8 in Figure@ closer together along 't and are then pressed he line 2 asillustrated.

In order to do this it is necessary to double 40 in the portion immediately above the stitching as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 above the head Lt, thus retaining the wireV in position; the device is then unfolded, inverted, and placed over the plant and the projecting wire 1Q is 45 pushed into the ground toretain the whole in position. Ot course the device may be made ot any desired size or of any suitable material without departing from my invention.

claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent;

l. In combination, a sheet of flexible material i'olded into a flat bellows form and closed at one extremity while lattened so 55 that when expanded it will 'form a bag, and a wire having one extremity bent so as to be retained in position by the folds of said bag when expanded. Y

2. In combination, a sheet of leXible-ma-- 6o terial folded into a fiat bellows form with adjacent edgesoii the side folds being con tiguous when in fiat torni, stitched near one `extremity while flattened so as to form a .of said bag when expanded.

CHARLES M. ARMSTRONG. 

